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A Catalogue of Inter-Parameter Dependencies in RESTful Web APIs
Autor/es | Martín López, Alberto
Segura Rueda, Sergio Ruiz Cortés, Antonio |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-05-24 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 978-3-030-33701-8 0302-9743 |
Resumen | Web services often impose dependency constraints that re strict the way in which two or more input parameters can be combined
to form valid calls to the service. Unfortunately, current specification
languages for web ... Web services often impose dependency constraints that re strict the way in which two or more input parameters can be combined to form valid calls to the service. Unfortunately, current specification languages for web services like the OpenAPI Specification provide no support for the formal description of such dependencies, which makes it hardly possible to automatically discover and interact with services without human intervention. Researchers and practitioners are openly requesting support for modelling and validating dependencies among in put parameters in web APIs, but this is not possible unless we share a deep understanding of how dependencies emerge in practice—the aim of this work. In this paper, we present a thorough study on the presence of dependency constraints among input parameters in web APIs in in dustry. The study is based on a review of more than 2.5K operations from 40 real-world RESTful APIs from multiple application domains. Overall, our findings show that input dependencies are the norm, rather than the exception, with 85% of the reviewed APIs having some kind of dependency among their input parameters. As the main outcome of our study, we present a catalogue of seven types of dependencies consistently found in RESTful web APIs |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN). España Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (MECD). España |
Identificador del proyecto | BELI (TIN2015-70560-R)
HORATIO (RTI2018-101204-B-C21) FPU17/04077 |
Cita | Martín López, A., Segura Rueda, S. y Ruiz Cortés, A. (2019). A Catalogue of Inter-Parameter Dependencies in RESTful Web APIs. En ICSOC 2019: 17th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (399-414), Toulouse, France: Springer. |
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